Backing up VM recommendations
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Have a look at Trilead VM Explorer. I've been using it for a few years to backup some ESX and Hyper-V VM's and it's doing the job really well.
It's cheap too, only about £1k pa for the Enterprise version. You may find the Pro version has all the features you need.
It's cheap too, only about £1k pa for the Enterprise version. You may find the Pro version has all the features you need.
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Veeam Essentials licences are available for 2, 4 or 6 CPU. List price is £688 per 2 CPU including 1 year support. You might even get a bit of discount, especially if you take 3 years support. You can backup as many physical machines as you like with their Endpoint product.
It is a fantastic product.
It is a fantastic product.
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Veeam is awesome. 3 days til they put their prices up according to the email I got today so may be worth looking at it soon 
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Veeam is awesome. 3 days til they put their prices up according to the email I got today so may be worth looking at it soon
There already on the pricey side! There rubbish tape implementation is really frustratingly poor. Cant beat it for ease of use mind but i'm finding it harder to justify it over other products these days.
Op have a look at Unitrends.
A hell of a lot of people. We're only just moving onto DAS with mirroring as we're not able to fit all our data onto 2 LTO6 drives and 1 LTO4 drive within time limits.
Veeam is great, we don't have any issues with tape backups either using and that's with most of our users still on v8. No noticeable difference going to 9 either for tape, although the dedupe improvements have saved our customers some money
The vast majority of our users are only using it to back up between 1-3 VMs and then some have replication on top of that. You pay for a good product It always amazes me that a lot of companies are very slow at transitioning to new backup technologies. Tape, whilst still making us a lot of money, literally has zero R&D now. Our R&D over the last 3+ years at least, has been heavily focused on disk-based backup products.
I understand cost is a huge factor, but utilising technologies like dedupe saves on storage costs, replication saves on time/costs of transporting data off-site, also means DR activities are much quicker.
We recently acquired these guys, its a great product. I was over in their offices two weeks ago - its an amazing little team.
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And you've already re-branded the product
I think it's a great piece of software. I'll be interested to see what HPE do to it. I'm really hoping you don't do what Symantec do and utterly destroy a good product.
And you've already re-branded the product
I think it's a great piece of software. I'll be interested to see what HPE do to it. I'm really hoping you don't do what Symantec do and utterly destroy a good product.
Oh dont worry we wont
I've got DP at the high end and VMExplorer at the SMB, so it shouldnt be corrupted by the usual 'lets shove everything into this startup software' syndrome.
